>Sure, the parts are made to more uniform tolerances than they have ever >been.......but as Ron is saying (I believe--he'll stomp me if I'm wrong, >don't worry), all of this fine, precision array is then assembled by hand >in a piano carcass that has NOT been machined to similarly close >tolerances, hence the lack of interchangeability of actions, for >example. And the vastly different feel to instruments that only LOOK >identical. (Why this should come as any kind of surprise, I don't know!) > >Stan Ryberg Ah but there isn't a production piano anywhere that's either all machine made, or all hand made. They're all some of each. Steinways could be every bit as hand built as they are now yet vastly more uniform and of a higher average performance level. Ron N
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